Five changes for Liverpool, with Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak among those dropping to the bench and Joe Gomez and Kostas Tsimikas among those hopping into the first XI. Liverpool: Alisson, Gomez, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Mac Allister, Nyoni, Munoz, Szoboszlai, Ngumoha, Barcola.
No Nigerian player, goalkeeper, coach, club or national team features in any of the seven men's categories announced by CAF.
Ghana Football Association President Kurt Okraku has shed light on some of the challenges facing the association in managing the country’s various national teams, calling for greater government support to ensure the long-term development of football. Speaking about the challenges before Parliament’s Select Committee on Sports, Okraku described the situation as one of the fundamental problems preventing Ghana from building a sustainable and successful football ecosystem.
Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate launches programme with ₹3.50 lakh government assistance for coaching and hostel accommodation
Madrid hope to bring in forward during January United to consider legal action if they feel rules broken Real Madrid are closing in on signing JJ Gabriel, though Manchester United will consider legal action if the club believe any rules have been broken. Gabriel is registered with United’s academy until the end of the season and it is understood the club have yet to be contacted by the player’s camp or Madrid regarding the proposed move.
Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kurt Okraku has questioned the government’s commitment to the long-term development of football in the country, insisting that sustained success requires more than the efforts of the football governing body. However, appearing before Parliament’s Select Committee on Sports on Wednesday, Okraku challenged the government to take greater responsibility, arguing that the lack of essential infrastructure and investment continues to undermine the country’s football ambitions.
Rivers United have received a final warning from the NPFL after the league accused the club of obstructing its broadcast partners during their Matchday 11 fixture against Rangers International. The club had earlier denied blocking the production crew.
140 amateur golfers, including international participants from Nigeria, Burundi and Kenya will compete in the event slated for Saturday, November 21, 2026, at the Achimota Golf Club in Accra. Other valued sponsors include Samsung Ghana, The Luckiest, Myla Homes, National Petroleum Authority, Danny List Foundation, Aphro Ghana, Coca-Cola Ghana, Guinness Ghana, Pasonia, La Villa Aphro, Happy Box, TGTS, Ember Coco, Sunlodge, JD’s Fresh Juice, The Palms by Eagles, Gevans Natural Minerals Water and Nguvu Mining Limited.
Court observes that transferring the land for industrial purposes will destroy not just the migratory corridor of elephants but but also the entire ecosystem in the area
Tennis great Rafael Nadal is set to join the board of Spanish football giants Real Madrid.
WSL’s second-highest goalscorer is likened to England legend for her crossing and has earned France call-up At the conclusion of Birmingham’s warm-up, the players quietly and carefully placed their footballs into a draw-string bag. It was an innocuous moment that might have escaped most onlookers at Hednesford Town’s Keys Park
The 22-time Grand Slam winner is to be ratified onto club's board of directors.
British player sent abusive messages after defeat in India WTA says ‘staff in Chennai offering Jodie support’ The WTA has offered additional support to Jodie Burrage after she received death threats and online abuse following a first-round defeat at a tournament in India on Tuesday. Burrage shared a raft of abusive messages sent to her Instagram account after a gruelling 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 defeat by India’s Vaishnavi Adkar at the Chennai Open.
The 30-year-old died on Tuesday following an on-pitch collision with Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono.
The incident, which took place in the early hours of October 28, came to light after the family returned from Kodagu district.
‘He would never intentionally hurt anyone,’ Spatz says Barça’s Raphinha found it ‘difficult’ to play after tragedy The FC Andorra centre-back Lautaro Spatz has defended his teammate Jesús Owono after the goalkeeper’s collision with Jesús de Miguel on Monday, which preceded the Tenerife player’s death the next day. Andorra said they were offering psychological support to anyone at the club who needed it after De Miguel’s death.
Full-back believes 3-2 win can transform season United were booed off by supporters at half-time Diogo Dalot believes Manchester United’s comeback win against Roma in the Champions League on Tuesday can transform their troubled season and, as importantly, showed unhappy supporters that the players care. The Glazer family, who have owned United since 2005 and loaded £1.2bn of debt onto the club, continue to be the focus for fan anger and there was yet another protest against them before kick-off at Old Trafford, with thousands of green and gold balloons released from the Stretford End.
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The full list comprises Amad Diallo (Ivory Coast), Yoane Wissa (DR Congo), Antoine Semenyo (Ghana), Ismael Saibari, Achraf Hakimi, Brahim Diaz (Morocco), Ismaila Sarr, Pape Gueye, Sadio Mane (Senegal) and Teboho Mokoena (South Africa). For the Men’s National Team of the Year, Algeria, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia made the shortlist.
Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta will serve a three-match ban after officials rejected an appeal against his red card in Saturday’s 2-0 Premier League defeat at Tottenham. The France international, 29, was sent off in the 13th minute at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after a late challenge on Spurs captain
Some of Brian McDermott’s players will arrive home a week after their early exit from the tournament By No Helmets Required England players would have been well advised to ignore the advert outside their North Bay hotel in Wollongong over the weekend: “Everything that truly matters is possible,” it read. When Wigan teammates Junior Nsemba and Zach Eckersley reminisce about their trip to the World Cup, they may well talk about spending the afternoon riding e-scooters up and down Cliff Road or strolling along North Beach rather than playing against Tonga, France and Papua New Guinea.
James Taylor recalls the ‘moments of pure elation’ and twisted intimacy of being under the batter’s nose at short leg Out in Arizona, just south of Tucson. There’s a town they call Tombstone where the brave never cry … On the outskirts of Tombstone stands Boothill Graveyard, the final resting place for the many cowboys who died “with their boots on” in the seconds-long but deadly shootouts of the wild west.
The US imposed sanctions on Rwanda's army over its role in the conflict in DR Congo.
Ghana midfielder Caleb Yirenkyi has been shortlisted for the Young Player of the Year award at the 2026 CAF Awards, where he will compete with nine other nominees for the continental honour. Algeria’s Ibrahim Maza, Cameroon’s Christian Kofane and Ivory Coast duo Christ Inao and Yan Diomande are among the contenders.
Students, mostly from rural, low-income families, were selling blood, sometimes two to four times a month, to pay steep coaching fees, besides hostel and mess charges, the party’s memorandum to the NHRC says